Ready, set, SUGAR!!!

This weekend we survived our traditional Jacobson family candy house extravaganza - complete with massive amounts of sugar (followed by highs and lows) and more amazing home-cooking from my mom. Not to be mistaken as "gingerbread houses," ours are ALWAYS made out of wafers glued together with frosting. Some do the traditional four walls plus a roof plus candy, others so unique designs, and still others don't care what it looks like as long as you can pile candy on every open space so as to have more to eat when the time comes! The Jacobson family has been doing this for as long as I can remember, and it is a tradition unlike any other in our family! We also celebrated birthdays of my nephew and niece who turned 3 and 4! Great time had by all in Anacortes, as always. Here is the documentation of the day of creativity and craziness...

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Ready, set, GO! Bowls of candy are ready, cardboard is wrapped with foil, frosting ("glue") is bagged and ready, and the plans are put into action!

Tina and Grant (new boyfriend, was crazy enough to come hang out with our family that day!) set out to make the nativity scene for their "house" this year.

Niece Melanie (10 yrs) was very excited about having PINK wafers this year.

Robin laying the "foundation" for his candy creation...stay tuned for the revealing.

The Schweens mid-way through construction! The majority of the construction time fell conveniently during Tyson's afternoon nap, so we were free to concentrate for a couple of hours.

Robin working meticulously on his creation - it is now dark outside you'll notice, and Tyson is up from his nap and hanging out in the corner between us in his exersaucer and we complete the finishing touches on our projects.

Grant and Tina with their finished nativity scene - complete with baby Jesus in the manger, and a kneeling camel. Impressive...

Tyler and Tyson playing on the floor.

Hubby and wife with their finished products! WHEW! Robin made Qwest field (an obvious choice), and I made my first ever two-story-plus-garage house (as opposed to the little square house I've made every other year).

My house! The basketball hoop above the garage is my favorite part, I must say :)

Qwest Field!

A few of the other creative endeavors done by various family members (all ages included :)

Riley turns 3 and Anna Marie turns 4 in December, so we celebrated their birthdays too!

Fabulous time had by all, much sugar consumed, and yet another successful year of candy-house making came to an end! This year we didn't have my brother Leif, or my brother-in-law Bobby's houses to compete with. They were otherwise engaged taking care of teething babies, etc, so Robin will have more competition for creativity next time :)

We have a busy couple of weeks coming up with two Christmas parties next weekend, and a wedding, party, and birthday party the next before we leave for Kansas on the 23rd! We will be there for 5 days with Robin's family staying at his grand parent's house. Stay tuned for more Christmastime adventures with Tyson...